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Mistress of Life and Death

Author : Susan J. Eischeid
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 080654287X
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Mistress of Life and Death written by Susan J. Eischeid and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, unflinching biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, one of the most notorious and contradictory figures at the heart of the Nazi regime, and her transformation from harmless small-town girl to hardened killer. With new details and previously unpublished photographs, this gripping, unflinching examination charts her transformation from engaging country girl to “The Beast” of Auschwitz. By the time of her execution at thirty-six, Maria Mandl had achieved the highest rank possible for a woman in the Third Reich. As Head Overseer of the women’s camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, she was personally responsible for the murders of thousands, and for the torture and suffering of countless more. In this riveting biography, Susan J. Eischeid explores how Maria Mandl, regarded locally as “a nice girl from a good family,” came to embody the very worst of humanity. Born in 1912 in the scenic Austrian village of Münzkirchen, Maria enjoyed a happy childhood with loving parents—who later watched in anguish as their grown daughter rose through the Nazi system. Mandl’s life mirrors the period in which she lived: turbulent, violent, and suffused with paradoxes. At Auschwitz-Birkenau, she founded the notable women’s orchestra and “adopted” several children from the transports—only to lead them to the gas chambers when her interest waned. After the war, Maria was arrested for crimes against humanity. Following a public trial attended by the international press, she was hanged in 1948. For two decades, Eischeid has excavated the details of Mandl’s life story, drawing on archival testimonies, speaking to dozens of witnesses, and spending time with Mandl’s community of friends and neighbors who shared their memories as well as those handed down in their families. The result is a chilling and complex exploration of how easily an ordinary citizen chose the path of evil in a climate of hate and fear.

Captive

Author : Valerie Michaels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462014925
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Captive written by Valerie Michaels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Kelley is an American who has lived in Germany for much of her life and remained even after Hitlers takeover. She is captured by the Gestapo for hiding her best friend, Zarah, who she believes is a Jew, and is sent to a concentration camp for her so-called crime. Derek von Vetter is the half-English, half-German nobleman and career German Army officer, who has been assigned as Kommandant as punishment by his superiors when they discover he had falsified identity papers for his grandmothers secretary and friend, Miriam, who is a Jew. If he did not accept the so-called commission, then he, Sabrina and Miriam would be incarcerated at the camp, Once there, he along with his friends in the Resistance smuggle in supplies for the benefit of the prisoners and in helping several of them to escape. If his superiors discovered these new changes, he could be killed. Could Elizabeth and the other captives trust him and his changes? Were they genuine or merely for show? Would she be able to resist falling in love with him or would her heart make the decision for her?

The Kommandant's Mistress

Author : Sherri Szeman
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559705424
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Kommandant's Mistress written by Sherri Szeman and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling look into the complex power struggle between a Nazi kommandant & the beautiful Jewish prisoner he forces to live as his mistress.

The Publishers Weekly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arts & Humanities Citation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Kommandant's Girl

Author : Pam Jenoff
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1460396073
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Kommandant's Girl written by Pam Jenoff and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into Poland. Within days Emma’s husband is forced to disappear underground, leaving her alone in the Jewish ghetto. In the dead of night, the resistance smuggles her out and brings her to Krakow, where she takes on a new identity as Anna Lipowski, a gentile. Emma’s already precarious situation is complicated by her introduction to Kommandant Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi official who hires her to work as his assistant. As the atrocities of war intensify, Emma must make unthinkable choices that will force her to risk not only her double life, but also the lives of those she loves. Don’t miss Pam Jenoff’s new novel, Code Name Sapphire, a riveting tale of bravery and resistance during World War II. Read these other sweeping epics from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff: The Woman with the Blue Star The Lost Girls of Paris The Orphan’s Tale The Ambassador’s Daughter The Diplomat’s Wife The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach The Winter Guest

AB Bookman's Weekly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book AB Bookman's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hanns and Rudolf

Author : Thomas Harding
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476711925
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Hanns and Rudolf written by Thomas Harding and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The “compelling,” untold story of the man who captured and brought to trial Rudolf Höss—one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals and subject of the Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest—“fascinates and shocks” (The Washington Post). May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, Höss not only oversaw the murder of more than one million men, women, and children; he was the man who perfected Hitler’s program of mass extermination. Höss is on the run across a continent in ruins, the one man whose testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss’s capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. Moving from the Middle Eastern campaigns of World War I to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, it tells the story of two German men—one Jewish, one Catholic—whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way. This is “one of those true stories that illuminates a small justice in the aftermath of the Holocaust, an event so huge and heinous that there can be no ultimate justice” (New York Daily News).

Death Dealer

Author : Rudolf Hoss
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616140089
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Death Dealer written by Rudolf Hoss and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Höss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is the first complete translation of Höss's memoirs into English. These bone-chilling memoirs were written between October 1946 and April 1947. At the suggestion of Professor Sanislaw Batawia, a psychologist, and Professor Jan Shen, the prosecuting attorney for the Polish War Crimes Commission in Warsaw, Höss wrote a lengthy and detailed description of how the camp developed, his impressions of the various personalities with whom he dealt, and even the extermination of millions in the gas chambers. This written testimony is perhaps the most important document attesting to the Holocaust, because it is the only candid, detailed, and (for the most part) honest description of the Final Solution from a high-ranking SS officer intimately involved in carrying out the plans of Hitler and Himmler. With the cold objectivity of a common hit-man, Höss chronicles the discovery of the most effective poison gas, and the technical obstacles that often thwarted his aim to kill as efficiently as possible. Staring at the horror without reacting, Höss allowed conditions at Auschwitz to reduce human beings to walking skeletons - then he labelled them as subhumans fit only to die. Readers will witness Höss's shallow rationalizations as he tries to balance his deeds with his increasingly disturbed, yet always ineffectual, conscience.

The Kommandant's Mistress, Revised & Expanded, 20th Anniversary Edition

Author : Alexandria Constantinova Szeman
Publisher : Rockway Press
ISBN 13 : 9780976819653
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Kommandant's Mistress, Revised & Expanded, 20th Anniversary Edition written by Alexandria Constantinova Szeman and published by Rockway Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rumors spread by the Camp's inmates, other Nazi officers, and the Kommandant's own family insist that she was his "mistress," but was she, voluntarily? Told from three different perspectives - that of the formerly idealistic Kommandant, the young Jewish inmate who captivates him, and the ostensibly objective historical biographies of the protagonists - this novel examines one troubling moral question over and over: if your staying alive was the only "good" during the War, if your survival was your sole purpose in this horrific world of the Concentration Camps - whether you were Nazi or Jewish - what, exactly, would you do to survive? Would you lie, cheat, steal, kill, submit? Flashing back and forth through the narrators' memories as they recall their time before, during, and after the War, and leading, inevitably, to their ultimate, shocking confrontation, "Szeman's uncompromising realism and superb use of stream-of-consciousness technique make [this novel] a chilling study of evil, erotic obsession, and the will to survive" (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY). Winner of the Kafka Prize for "best book of prose fiction by an American woman" ('94) and chosen as one of the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW's "Top 100 Books of the Year" ('93), the tales told by the Kommandant, his "mistress," and their "biographer" will mesmerize and stun you, leaving you wondering, at the conclusion, which, if any, is telling the complete truth about what happened between them.

The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945

Author : Paul Sanders
Publisher : Paul Sanders
ISBN 13 : 0953885836
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945 written by Paul Sanders and published by Paul Sanders. This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Isles have only been successfully invaded and occupied once since 1066: the German occupation of the Channel Islands from 1940-1945. This book commemorates a defining period in the history of the islands and an important aspect of contemporary British history.

The House by the Lake: The True Story of a House, Its History, and the Four Families Who Made It Home

Author : Thomas Harding
Publisher : Candlewick Studio
ISBN 13 : 1536212741
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The House by the Lake: The True Story of a House, Its History, and the Four Families Who Made It Home written by Thomas Harding and published by Candlewick Studio. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History comes home in a deeply moving, exquisitely illustrated tale of a small house, taken by the Nazis, that harbors a succession of families—and becomes a quiet witness to a tumultuous century. The days went around like a wheel. The sun rose, warming the walls of the house. On the outskirts of Berlin, Germany, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a hundred years, this little house played host to a kind Jewish doctor and his family, a successful Nazi composer, wartime refugees, and a secret-police informant. During that time, as a world war came and went and the Berlin Wall arose just a stone’s throw from the back door, the house filled up with myriad everyday moments. And when that time was over, and the dwelling was empty and derelict, the great-grandson of the man who built the house felt compelled to bring it back to life and listen to the story it had to tell. Illuminated by Britta Teckentrup’s magnificent illustrations, Thomas Harding’s narration reads like a haunting fairy tale—a lyrical picture-book rendering of the story he first shared in an acclaimed personal history for adult readers.

Between Dignity and Despair

Author : Marion A. Kaplan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195313585
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Between Dignity and Despair written by Marion A. Kaplan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily lives in a world that was becoming more and more insane. Answering the charge that Jews should have left earlier, Kaplan shows that far from seeming inevitable, the Holocaust was impossible to foresee precisely because Nazi repression occurred in irregular and unpredictable steps until the massive violence of Novemer 1938. Then the flow of emigration turned into a torrent, only to be stopped by the war. By that time Jews had been evicted from their homes, robbed of their possessions and their livelihoods, shunned by their former friends, persecuted by their neighbors, and driven into forced labor. For those trapped in Germany, mere survival became a nightmare of increasingly desperate options. Many took their own lives to retain at least some dignity in death; others went underground and endured the fears of nightly bombings and the even greater terror of being discovered by the Nazis. Most were murdered. All were pressed to the limit of human endurance and human loneliness. Focusing on the fate of families and particularly women's experience, Between Dignity and Despair takes us into the neighborhoods, into the kitchens, shops, and schools, to give us the shape and texture, the very feel of what it was like to be a Jew in Nazi Germany.

Commandant of Auschwitz

Author : Rudolf Höss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Commandant of Auschwitz written by Rudolf Höss and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-person account by the SS captain who arranged the gassing of two million people at Auschwitz between 1941-1943.

Love in the Time of Dinosaurs

Author : Alexandria Constantinova Szeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977663484
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Dinosaurs written by Alexandria Constantinova Szeman and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Love in the Time of Dinosaurs" includes all Szeman's non-Holocaust poetry from 1980-2010. Many of the poems begin with a narrator's or character's questioning his expectations of life versus the reality s/he encounters. In "Portrait of the Poet as a Woman, " the poems, firmly grounded in everyday objects and people, examine marriage, children, and family relationships; eventually expanding the narrator's or character's view to include the universal human condition, especially that of women. The narrators of all the family dramatic monologues speak poignantly of our desire for acceptance and love, of the fear of betrayal, of loneliness and isolation even when within a relationship, as well as of treasured moments of love, happiness, and desire. Imaginative depictions of mythological, literary, and biblical characters' lives frequently appear: from Cain to Ahab's Wife, from Penelope to Ulysses. Characters from Szeman's award-winning short story collection are present, including favorites like Eddie Madison and his friend Auggie Vernon, as each explores the suddenly unfamiliar landscape of his marriage and fatherhood, or attempts, through dubious methods, to discover God Himself. Szeman's themes are universal, encompassing the perspectives of men and women, adults and children, equally honestly. All of the poems in the collection have been previously published in literary and university journals; several were part of her dissertation, "Survivor: One Who Survives." Elliston Poetry Prize ('83, 84, '85) and the Isabel & Mary Neff Creative Writing Fellowship ('84-85). Along with her Holocaust poetry collection, "Where Lightning Strikes, " this collection, "Love in the Time of Dinosaurs, " was unanimously accepted for publication by all outside readers of UKA Press in 2004. As powerfully written, darkly humorous, surprising, and accessible as her prose works, these poems let you glimpse into the hearts, lives, and minds of ordinary people - whether they be mythological, biblical, literary, or contemporary - as they struggle to make sense of relationships, family, marriage, divorce, children, spirituality, faith, and the existence of God. As they struggle to comprehend the very things each of us experiences every day.

Where Lightning Strikes

Author : Alexandria Constantinova Szeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977663439
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Where Lightning Strikes written by Alexandria Constantinova Szeman and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where Lightning Strikes" includes all Szeman's Holocaust poetry, from the poems featured in her Ph.D. dissertation "Survivor: One Who Survives, " to the original versions of "Rachel's poems" appearing or mentioned in Szeman's award-winning, critically acclaimed first novel "The Kommandant's Mistress." The poems in this collection revisit the classic themes that have inspired poets for generations: love, passion, betrayal, doubt, loyalty, despair, faith, and survival - this time in the context of the period before, during, and after the Holocaust with its systematic persecution and extermination of the majority of European Jewry by the Nazi regime. In this collection, victims are given voices. The true story of Auschwitz-survivor Anna Brunn Ornstein, who was in the camp as a young girl with her mother, is transformed from Anna's own stories and related in the disturbing yet moving poem "Sofie and Anna." Other disturbing yet lyrical poems trace the Holocaust from the perpetrators' perspective, from Speer's musings to a Ghetto guard's complaints. Haunting depictions of abusers' and survivors' lives after the war appear, from those who protest innocence, not always convincingly, to those who survived the camps and rebuilt their lives, only to encounter surprising events after the War. Though the line-breaks are syllabic - imitating the arbitrary rigidity of the Nazi persecutions as well as of the concentration camps' operations - the language flows passionately over the artificially imposed line-breaks and formal stanzas. All of the poems in this collection have been previously published in literary and university journals. Winner of the prestigious Elliston Poetry Prize ('83, 84, '85) and the Isabel & Mary Neff Creative Writing Fellowship ('84-85). Along with her non-Holocaust poetry collection, "Love in the Time of Dinosaurs, " this volume, "Where Lightning Strikes, " was unanimously accepted for publication by all outside readers of UKA Press in 2004. Szeman's themes, though set, in this collection, around the Holocaust, are universal, encompassing the perpetrators', victims', and survivors' perspectives equally insightfully. As powerful, unsettling, and lyrical as her first novel, "The Kommandant's Mistress, " these poems will take you on a compelling, chilling, and unforgettable journey into the lives, hearts, and minds of all those who were in the Holocaust.

The Eternal Woman

Author : Gertrud Von Le Fort
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681494876
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Eternal Woman written by Gertrud Von Le Fort and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Alice von Hildebrand When The Eternal Woman was first published in Germany, Europe was a battlefield of modern ideologies that would sweep away millions of lives in war and genocide. Denying the Creator, who made male and female, Nazism and Communism could only fail to appreciate the true meaning of the feminine and reduce woman to a mere instrument of the state. In the name of liberating her from the so-called tyranny of Christianity, atheism, in any form, leads to woman's enslavement. With penetrating insight Gertrud von le Fort understood the war on womanhood, and consequently on motherhood, that always coincides with an attack on the faith of the Catholic Church, which she embraced at the age of 50 in 1926. In The Eternal Woman, she counters the modern assault on the feminine not with polemical argument but with perhaps the most beautiful meditation on womanhood ever written. Taking Mary, Virgin and Mother, as her model, von le Fort reflects on the significance of woman's spiritual and physical receptivity that constitutes her very essence, as well as her role in both the creation and redemption of human beings. Mary's fiat to God is the pathway to our salvation, as it is inextricably linked with the obedience unto death of Jesus her son. Like the Son's acceptance of the Cross, Mary's acceptance of her maternity symbolizes for all mankind the self-surrender to the Creator required of every human soul. Since any woman's acceptance of motherhood is likewise a yes to God, when womanhood and motherhood are properly understood and appreciated, the nature of the soul's relationship to God is revealed.